The Trojan wrestling team started their season on Saturday with hosting the New Prague Invite. The team wrestled well and came away with the championship.

In the first round they defeated Austin by the score of 69-12, they beat Eastridge 80-0 and they had a closer match with Section 2 rival St. Peter 40-27. All in all a good day of wrestling. 

Trojans going 3-0 on were:

Eller, Vaughan, Michel, Westall, Buesgens, Dorweiler, Bornholdt, Farley and Anderson.

2-1 were Lofton, Geisen and Gregory.

1-2 were Block and Ellgren.

The Trojans will be back in action on Friday night wrestling Watertown/Mayer and Chaska/Chanhassen.

Go Trojans!

NEW PRAGUE
Youth Wrestling Tournament
“Doc Berg Classic”
Sunday, December 5th, 2021
5-MAN Round-Robin
New Prague High School 221 12th Street NE, New Prague, MN 56071
Registration: On site, the morning of t he Tournament
FEES: $ 15.00 wrestler fee. $5 Adult spectator admission fee. Child spectators free
2022 Division and Weights: Scratch Weight. 5-Man Round-Robin where possible
Divisions (birth year): 6U (2016-2017-2018), 8U (2014-2015) and 10U (2012-2013)
wrestle in East Gym.
Divisions (birth year): 12U (2010-2011), and 14U (2008-2009) wrestle in West Gym
WEIGH-IN:
9:00-10:00 am 6U, 8U and 10U divisions; wrestling starts 11:00 am
9:00-11:00 am 12U and 14U
Individual Awards: Place Winner Plaque to all participants.
Tournament Coordinators: Dan Wagner Phone: 612-703-8932
Tony Nelson: Phone 612-718-3948
Tournament Chairs: Sarah & Simon Kallal: Phone: 651-398-4794,
Email: sarah.kallal@gmail.com and simon.kallal@gmail.com

The Pre-Season rankings are out and the New Prague Trojans are in the top 10 as a team. Here is the top 12 for AA.

1. Simley (4)
2. Kassson-Mantorville (1)
3. Fairmont County West (3)
4. Princeton (6)
5. Becker (6)
6. Pequot Lakes/Pine River-Backus (8)
7. Big Lake (6)
8. Dassel/Cokato-Litchfield (6)
9. Thief River Falls (8)
10. New Prague (2)
11. Watertown Mayer (2)
12. Foley (6)

Scott West St. Peter and TCU are in the Lean and Mean for section 2AA.

The Trojans have 5 ranked wrestlers and they are:

Lawson Eller #3 at 106lbs
Koy Buesgens #1 at 138lbs
Colton Bornholdt #3 145lbs
Joey Novak #2 at 182lbs
Evan Anderson #4 at 195lbs

Junior's Koy Buesgens and Colton Bornholdt were competing in the Toughest High School tournament in the country this past weekend!

The Super 32 takes place in Greensboro, NC with wrestlers representing 46 states and Canada. This tournament had over 1650 wresters and majority of them are place winners at their individual state tournaments. This years class included 377 State Champions.

Koy Buesgens had a tremendous tournament. He is a State Champ at 126lbs and entered this years Super 32 at 132lbs. He would have the #1 ranked wrestler in Nic Bousakis in his bracket. 

Koy was the 11th seed in a bracket that consisted of 168 wrestlers. Koy would win his opening round match 11-1. He would continue with 3 more wins to get the quarterfinals. He would face a wrestler from Arizona that placed 2nd up in Fargo in July in Emilio Ysaguirre ranked #17 in the country. Koy would continue his great run with a UTB sudden death victory to advance to the Semi Finals.  He would face the #10 seed Mac Church, who just upset the #2 seed in the quarters. Koy's impressive run would continue with a 10-2 victory.  

The only opponent left in the bracket was the #1 ranked wrestler in the country and the #1 seed, Nic Bousakis out of Florida. Koy would wrestle another great match but came up short after getting in on a low single to an ankle. Bousakis would score the take down and win the title 6-4.  Placing 2nd at the Super 32 is a great accomplishment, congratulations Koy!

Colton Bornholdt wrestled well and went 2 and 2 at this extremely tough tournament. Colton had 168 wrestlers in his 138lb bracket. Job well done Colton!

The New Prague Wrestling team will be competing in a different Conference and Section this year. They will be a member of the Metro West conference which includes, Benilde St. Margarets, Bloomington Jefferson, Bloomington Kennedy, Chanhassen, Chaska, Orono, Robbinsdale Cooper, St. Louis Park and Waconia.

We will dropping down to Section 2AA a very familiar section for New Prague, we will be reuniting with the likes of Scott West and TCU. The complete section includes; Delano, Glencoe-Silver Lake, Mankato East, Mankato West, Mound Westonka, Orono, Rockford, St. Peter and Watertown-Mayer.

Below is the link to the youth wrestling parent meeting we held on October 13.  If you were unable to attend or had to jump off, here is a recorded video of it.  If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to any of the coaches.

Trojan Wrestling will be strong again in 2021/22. The season will start on Nov. 22nd with the first practice. The first event will be the New Prague Invite on Dec 4th. A complete schedule is listed below.

We plan on covering each match again on Facebook live thanks to our sponsors!

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2021/22 Schedule

Dec. 4th New Prague Invite Austin, Eastridge and St. Peter

Dec. 10th @ Chaska/Chan with WMML

Dec. 11th @ ScottWest (K-12 event)

Dec 17th-18th MN Christmas Tournament in Rochester

Dec. 21st Bloomington Kennedy/BSM/Mound @ New Prague

Dec. 29th-30th Rumble On The Red Fargo

Jan. 7th-8th The Clash in Rochester

Jan. 8th TCU Invite

Jan. 13th HWY 13 Battle (K-12 Event) in New Prague

Jan. 15th St. Cloud Kiffmeyer Duals

Jan. 20th @ Orono

Jan. 22nd Zelinski Memorial  @ Whitnall HS Wisconsin

Jan. 27th TCU with Robbinsdale Cooper

Jan. 28th @Robbinsdale Cooper (rescheduled to the Jan. 27th)

Jan. 29th Orono Invite

Feb. 4th Waconia in New Prague

Feb. 5th Minnetonka Duals

Feb. 12th JV Tournament Lakeville South

Feb. 17th-19th Team Sections

Feb. 25th-26th Ind. Sections

Mar. 3rd-5th State Tourney Xcel Energy Center

Plenty of good matchups with ranked teams this year. Should be a fun season.

Go Trojans!

Click on the link below to register for New Prague Youth Wrestling.  

Looking forward to another great season!

THE FUTURE IS LOOKING BRIGHT!